Surnames of Iberian Peninsula
โข version: draft โข created: Mid-2024
Introduction
This post explores the most common surnames across the Iberian Peninsula through wordcloud visualisation. Region includes selected countries of Southern Europe from "UN M49, Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use (Series M, No. 49)" โ. Political boundaries shown according to their "de facto" status โ. Data came from Forebears.io.
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Fig 1. Surnames of Iberian Peninsula.
Read more about local naming customs at Familysearch.org's wiki โ: Spain Naming Customs โ, Portugal Naming Customs โ, Andorra* โ. Also, for some countries and regions you can find academic papers that explain how names were forming there.
Fig 2. Surnames of Iberian peninsula, by country.
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